# Kong — API Agent Score

> Score: 86/100 (Grade: A) | Domain: kong.com | Rubric: 1.0.0 | Checked: August 18, 2026

Kong scored 86/100 (A), classified "ai-ready".

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## Summary

- Overall: 86/100 (A)
- Classification: ai-ready

## Category Scores

- API Design: 96/100 (A+)
- Developer Experience: 72/100 (B)
- Agent Discovery: 85/100 (A)
- Agent Understanding: 88/100 (A)
- Agent Usability: 85/100 (A)

## Check Results

### API Design

- [warn] Schema coverage & depth — 46/51 (90%) public params are fully typed (no any/**kwargs). Analyzer reports not all methods have a derivable input schema. Investigated: sdk 91%.
- [pass] Security & governance hygiene — Code is formatter-clean with zero linter errors and zero style warnings. Investigated: sdk 100%, wellknown 50%.
- [pass] Example coverage — README is present and includes a runnable quickstart. Investigated: sdk 100%.
- [skip] Machine-readable, versioned contract — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Auth declared & discoverable — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

### Developer Experience

- [pass] Self-service developer portal — Signup page found at https://kong.com/signup, but no free tier or sandbox is documented in docs/pricing, so an agent may hit a paywall. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [fail] Description completeness — 40/40 operations lack a description. Investigated: sdk 0%.
- [skip] Quickstart present — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Code samples in docs — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Changelog published — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

### Agent Discovery

- [pass] llms.txt present, valid & comprehensive — A full-corpus llms-full.txt is published at https://kong.com/llms-full.txt, so agents can ingest all your docs in one fetch. Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 0%.
- [pass] Registry & SDK presence — Indexed on Context7 (kong/kong, 736 snippets). Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 100%, cli 0%.
- [fail] Crawlable / AEO — No sitemap found via robots.txt or /sitemap.xml on the docs host, so AI search engines have no crawl map for your docs. Investigated: wellknown 0%.
- [skip] Docs reachable, not hard auth-gated — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

### Agent Understanding

- [pass] Operation purpose clarity — Surface uses a single dominant casing convention (camelCase). Investigated: sdk 100%.
- [warn] Agent instructions file (AGENTS.md) — No agents.md or skill.md context file found (nice-to-have for agent operation). Investigated: sdk 50%, wellknown 0%.
- [skip] Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Agent-navigable, token-efficient docs — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Docs structured data — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Description consistency across surfaces — Only 1 surface description(s) with ≥6 tokens available; need at least 2 to compare.

### Agent Usability

- [pass] Idempotency documented — Built-in retry machinery is present (grep-derived). Investigated: sdk 100%.
- [warn] Sandbox separation — No test-mode flag or sandbox environment is exposed. Investigated: sdk 50%.
- [pass] Runnable collection with test scripts — README is present and includes a runnable quickstart. Investigated: sdk 100%, platform 0%.
- [skip] Rate-limit signaling — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Pagination documented & consistent — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

## Executive Summary

Kong's API design and overall program foundations are strong, giving partners a reliable contract to build against. The two areas that need immediate attention are operation documentation coverage — where zero out of 40 operations carry descriptions, leaving partners and their AI coding agents without the context needed to integrate confidently — and crawlability, where the absence of a sitemap means AI search engines and agent discovery tools cannot index the docs without a manual referral. Closing these two gaps will materially accelerate self-serve partner onboarding and ensure agents can find and act on Kong's APIs without a sales conversation.